Sierra Faith

Yes, Michael Jackson, RIP, but the oxygen has been sucked from that topic — so, now for something different from a different time.

It’s gonna get worse before it gets better: Three weeks ago, I noted Paul Krugman’s observation that, once the Fed cut rates to zero, we had reached the limits of monetary intervention. Between the TARP bailout and the massive “stimulus” passed in February, we may have reached the feasible limits of fiscal intervention. And none [...]

Have a party! Maggie, a 22-year-old college senior with no intention of bringing a child into the world yet, was going to have an abortion. She told us that she had already made up her mind; she had even determined the time, date and location. A better question might have been, “How are you going [...]

AKA Obamacare: I’d been wondering why the liberals are so passionate about this Health Care thing. It couldn’t be because they actually care about sick, poor people. If they did, they would visit hospitals, and give ten percent of their gross salaries to Compassion International and World Vision, like us stupid church go-ers do. Biden [...]

SpunkyHomeschool notes obnoxious school practices and concludes with a quote from C.S. Lewis: Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may [...]

And an independent press. Wow: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. . . . The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for [...]

Also known as IOUs. The Golden State is not even worth copper today. Now the judges are running the economy. Bank of America says Yes to funny money!

Joins the Senate. How appropriate.

Jonathan Karl reviews Alistair Horne’s Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year: Beyond the defense of Israel, Kissinger’s objective was to keep the Soviets out of the fighting and prevent the Yom Kippur War from turning into World War III. On Saturday, Oct. 20, he flew to Moscow to meet directly with Brezhnev. While Mr. Kissinger was [...]